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Peacock is adding an AI feather to its flock. The NBCUniversal property said Friday it will launch several new features to its mobile app, most notably a TikTok-like vertical video experience narrated

BuzzFeed, known for its many quirky quizzes of the 2010s, has launched a company called Branch Office, an independent spinoff built to rethink how people connect on the internet in the age of AI. Buzz

A new study from the University of Cambridge found that AI-enabled toys for young children can misinterpret emotional cues and are ineffective at supporting critical developmental play. The conclusion

While much of the United States suffers through an extended winter, in Glendale, California, it's another story. Sunny and warm on an afternoon at Walt Disney Imagineering R&D in mid-March, it was the

Okay, so the U.S. and China are locked in an all-out race to build the most powerful AI on the planet. Beijing is throwing billions at homegrown models, tightening its grip on the tech sector, and wat

Meta is betting the farm on AI, regardless of the mounting price tag. Now, the company is reportedly gearing up to slash one-fifth of its workforce through wide-reaching layoffs, according to an exclu

As demand grows for training and refining AI models, Deccan AI — a startup supplying post-training data and evaluation work — has raised $25 million in its first major funding round, with much of that

OpenAI said it will eventually launch a text-only adult mode for ChatGPT, the Wall Street Journal reports, despite what are strong misgivings from the company's own advisers.In adult mode, ChatGPT use

Anthropic’s latest research suggests that while AI is rapidly changing the way work gets done, it hasn’t meaningfully eliminated jobs. At least, not yet. But beneath what Anthropic’s head of economics

The latest models for ChatGPT users and developers using OpenAI's API are designed to be workhorses, built for tasks like vibe coding, where big, powerful AI models are expensive overkill. GPT-5.4 min

If Google’s AI researchers had a sense of humor, they would have called TurboQuant, the new, ultra-efficient AI memory compression algorithm announced Tuesday, “Pied Piper” — or, at least that’s what

What if your AI agent assistant didn't just chat or write code but carried out real, helpful tasks -- all on its own? And what if it could perform especially complicated tasks, like running scheduled

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At a press conference at the White House on Wednesday, First Lady Melania Trump showed up with a humanoid robot developed by robotics firm Figure AI. The duo waltzed down a red carpet together before

The explosion of new data center projects in the U.S. has led to a growing backlash against the infrastructure that powers AI. Two influential politicians are now proposing a ban on any new data cente